BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS AQUARIUS: LEWIS CARROLL

Writer, mathematician, and photographer, born in Daresbury, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, took orders in 1861, and became a lecturer in mathematics (1855–81). His nursery tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1872), both describe a child's dream adventures, and quickly became classics. ‘Alice’, to whom the surreal and satirical story was originally related during boating excursions, was the second daughter (who died in 1934) of Henry George Liddell, the head of his Oxford college. He wrote a great deal of humorous and nonsense verse, such as ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ (1876), as well as several mathematical works. He was also a respected portrait photographer. He lived much of his life in the N of England. ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ was written on Whitburn Sands, Sunderland, and most of ‘Jabberwocky’ was also composed in Whitburn, where there is a statue in his memory.